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Summary: A Very Satisfying Mystery
Review: Another excellent tale by Virginia Lanier. A satisfying mystery and likeable characters make for a very enjoyable read. Ms. Lanier packs a lot of suspense in each of the rescue scenes and I can't seem to read fast enough through those parts. I can't understand why her books aren't at the top of the bestseller lists.
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Summary: Not to be Missed
Review: I have read all of Virginia Lanier's books (date of review 8/7/00). All five are full of excitement and suspense as well as romance and humor. Being a dog lover myself, I was fascinated by the nuances of caring for, training, and working with bloodhounds. I just finished her last book in the series and I will sorely miss Jo Beth and her adventures into the swamp with her magnificent dogs. I am eagerly awaiting the next one!
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Summary: Can't wait for Lanier's next book. Wonderful Mystery Writer
Review: I have read all of Virginia Laniers books and they are vivid and exciting. She brings the people into your life as if you are part of the story line. You ride in her truck and walk along side of Jo-Beth as she searches the swamps for victims and murderers. Her bloodhounds are real heart winners and Bobby Lee is wonderful to have living in the house with Jo-Beth along side of Rudy. Same charters from book to book so you never lose sight of the picture she is painting. Each book is another part of your life in Georgia in search and rescue along with solving mysteries of murder, kidnapping and theif. This book is an A+++ just like Laniers other books.
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Summary: Blood hounds are Best
Review: I read the first book in this bloodhound series while travelling through the Okefenokee Swamp on vacation in 1996. I have eagerly anticipated each subsequent addition. Anyone with a love of animals, a love of mysteries, a love of gutsy women, or a love of southern colloquialisms will relish each book. I do encourage everyone to read them in order. In fact, due to an impending birth , I have been homebound, and just finished reading the first four books all over. I wait with bated breath for the fifth one to arrive. Jo Beth, Jasmine, Wayne, Hank, and all of the other fascinating cast of characters are captivating and unique. However, it's Bobby Lee, Melanie, Ashley, and all of the bloodhounds who make the books come to life.
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Summary: I'm surprised and disappointed that no one else
Review: is offended by Lanier's outdated, inaccurate, and incredibly ugly stereotyped depiction of a mentally disabled person as a vicious killer who is physically repulsive and morally corrupt. Mentally disabled people are far more likely to be the victims of crimes than they are to commit them, and they are no more prone to physical violence than the average person. Lanier's having come of age at a time when our society treated the handicapped as less than fully human does not excuse her for having perpetuated such a negative image. Unless she spent her adulthood in social isolation, surely Lanier had ample opportunities to observe people with a variety of handicaps, both mental and physical, going about their daily lives in much the same manner as she herself did. To resort to a nasty and downright false representation of the mentally disabled as a plot device suggests a serious lack of both imagination and knowledge on Lanier's part. I rather enjoy the other books in her "Bloodhound" series, which makes this offering all the more disappointing. I would like to think that Lanier came to realize that she had unfairly maligned the mentally disabled and regretted having fallen back on a such a negative stereotype instead of coming up with a more creative plotline. There are other flaws in "Blind Bloodhound Justice." The main story line wasn't much of a mystery this time, with the solution to the three-decades old murder jumping out at the reader almost immediately. A likeable character featured in previous books is done away with and then rarely mentioned again, much less mourned. Further, for a woman who lived in a southern state, Lanier seems surprisingly uninformed about the use and spelling of uniquely southern words such as "y'all" (used as a plural only, please, and written and pronounced as one syllable rather than two as in "you all"). And as always, many of the characters are described in Lanier's trademark stereotypes - though none quite as ugly and false as that of the mentally handicapped woman - which some readers may find at least tiresome if not actually offensive. Aside from an unexpected development concerning one of Jo Beth's dogs, this book in Lanier's series is, unfortunately, not worth adding to the reader's personal collection. Check this one out from the library.
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Summary: Virginia, the lady from the swamp, does it again!
Review: It is one of those rare cold winters in Southeast Georgia and Jo Beth Siddon finds she has time on her hands. The down time so boring that she sets out to solve a thirty year old kidnapping and murder. Her down time is short lived as she goes on the trail of a missing mother and child who also appear to be a kidnapped. To top the whole ordeal, her ex-husband, Bubba, the red-neck from hell, is on the prowl again. From the first page, you get caught up in Jo Beth's life. At one point, I almost yelled out loud, "Oh, no!" and at another point just sat laughing aloud. Mrs. Lanier has the knack of letting her readers get to know a character and phasing that person out after a book or two and adding new characters who will certainly be with us in coming books. I have come to read each book wondering who will not be around next time and who will become another great character. Her much loved blind bloodhound, Bobby Lee is his usual lovable! ! self but gives his devoted fans some scarey moments. The only problem is that now that I have read Blind Bloodhound Justice, I have to wait a year for the next one. Keep writing, Virginia, and thank you, Hoss, for buying her that typewriter and thank you, unknown bloodhound, for being at Hardy's in Jasper, FL a few years ago.
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Summary: I'm surprised and disappointed that no one else
Review: Just want to recommend this book, I actually enjoyed it more than the others. Well told, and after reading the other books in this series, you are really feeling like you know the characters and can identify with them. The very end is wonderful, and I can't wait to read the next.
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Summary: House on Bloodhound Lane
Review: Virginia Lanier grabbed me by the lease, sent me with Jo Beth and her bloodhounds on many a search through territory I'd never experienced before and she returned me safely to Bloodhound Lane. I've read the 1st four in the series and can't wait for the next edition. May there be many many more. .
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Summary: A NEW ADDICTION, & it's name is Virginia Lanier
Review: Wondeful, Witty.... & it has Dogs in it! This book has everything I want & need in a Great Mystery. Maybe it's being from the south , or having dogs of my own.... but I think that is a very small part of why this book applealed to me. I enjoyed getting to know about Blood Hounds and more on tracking. I'm a very good "book sleuth" and I hadn't guessed the ending half way through. The "Cast" of regulars are so well drawn that they are now important neighbors that I care about. So beware read this and you too will be "rabid" to get your hands on the rest of this series, as I now do. ah, ENJOY!
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